most citedLayerwise Importance Analysis of Feed-Forward Networks in Transformer-based Language Models

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cs.CL2026

Adapting Text LLMs to Speech via Multimodal Depth Up-Scaling

Kazuki Yano, Jun Suzuki, Shinji Watanabe

Adapting pre-trained text Large Language Models (LLMs) into Speech Language Models (Speech LMs) via continual pretraining on speech data is promising, but often degrades the origin…

cs.CL2026

Pre-training LLM without Learning Rate Decay Enhances Supervised Fine-Tuning

Kazuki Yano, Shun Kiyono, Sosuke Kobayashi +2

We investigate the role of learning rate scheduling in the large-scale pre-training of large language models, focusing on its influence on downstream performance after supervised f…

cs.SE2026

TimeMachine-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Capabilities in Repository-Level Migration Tasks

Ryo Fujii, Makoto Morishita, Kazuki Yano +1

With the advancement of automated software engineering, research focus is increasingly shifting toward practical tasks reflecting the day-to-day work of software engineers. Among t…

cs.CL2026

Suppressing Final Layer Hidden State Jumps in Transformer Pretraining

Keigo Shibata, Kazuki Yano, Ryosuke Takahashi +3

This paper discusses the internal behavior of Transformer language models. Many recent pre-trained models have been reported to exhibit only slight changes in the angular distance…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Layerwise Importance Analysis of Feed-Forward Networks in Transformer-based Language Models

Wataru Ikeda, Kazuki Yano, Ryosuke Takahashi +3

This study investigates the layerwise importance of feed-forward networks (FFNs) in Transformer-based language models during pretraining. We introduce an experimental approach that…

cs.CL2025

STEP: Staged Parameter-Efficient Pre-training for Large Language Models

Kazuki Yano, Takumi Ito, Jun Suzuki

Pre-training large language models (LLMs) faces significant memory challenges due to the large size of model parameters. We introduce STaged parameter-Efficient Pre-training (STEP)…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Construction of Model Family through Progressive Training Using Model Expansion

Kazuki Yano, Sho Takase, Sosuke Kobayashi +2

As Large Language Models (LLMs) gain widespread practical application, offering model families with varying parameter sizes has become standard practice to accommodate diverse comp…